«A principle that unites every kind of complexity theorist, and they are a richly varied class (see § 3 and § 5, below), is that observable «reality» pertaining to any field, physics, biology, chemistry, applied mathematics, economics, etc., is complex but this complexity emanates
from simple building blocks — of concepts, methods and rules of interaction.
They began by working out how to construct
from simple building blocks the cobalt corrin ring that lies at the heart of B12.
«These particles will help us to understand — and allow to mimic — the self - assembling mechanisms that nature uses to generate complexity and functionalities
from simple building blocks,» he says.
Not exact matches
Players mine and harvest
building materials, then use
simple small
blocks to create anything
from a replica of their own house to an entire city.
This is Pelé's most cherished ideal: the
simple life — life in a fairly modest apartment that is no better and no worse than the 35 other units in a pastel blue
building one
block from the beach at Santos; a life of fishing and hunting in the backwoods, away
from the crowds, or listening to records at home; a life of cautious investing, of moderate spending and quiet dignity; a life, in short, that should be almost impossible for the most famous athlete in the world.
So, we were starting to look at how
simple molecules like sugars get across these fatty acid membranes, you know, spontaneously without any help
from fancy proteins — and it turned out completely unexpectedly that ribose, which is one of the
building blocks of RNA, gets across a wide range of membranes much more quickly than a set of very closely related sugars.
«Some of the most useful
building blocks we have in the world are
simple, plentiful hydrocarbons like methane, which we extract
from the ground.
And a separate experiment, published in Nature in May, showed that it is possible for the
building blocks of RNA to emerge spontaneously
from simple molecules thought to have been present on the early earth.
University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules
from simple chemical «
building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be
built simply and economically
from a scant one dozen different
building blocks.
But in a matter of mere weeks, chemical reactions had produced thirteen of the amino acids necessary for life, showing that these
building blocks of proteins could be spawned
from the
simplest chemicals.
These
building blocks can become the steps of your scale and should progress
from the
simpler parts to the more complex overall goal.
In
simple terms, supplements improve the body's ability to function properly and stay healthy, but the body must first be provided with the right fuel and
building blocks from which to work.
Through a process known as photosynthesis, most plants use the energy in sunlight to convert carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere, plus water, into
simple sugars, which are used as
building blocks and form the main structural components.
From HGTV: Sarah 101 is a back - to - basics crash course in design that breaks every project into
simple building blocks.